News tagged with satellite data
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Smile! Aerial images being used to enforce laws
(AP) -- On New York's Long Island, it's used to prevent drownings. In Greece, it's a tool to help solve a financial crisis. Municipalities update property assessment rolls and other government data with it. ...
Aug 14, 2010 |
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Arctic ice island 'poses no immediate threat'
The largest ice island in almost 50 years poses no immediate threat as it will take up to two years to drift through the Arctic Ocean, the Canadian who discovered it told AFP.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 12, 2010 |
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First-of-its-kind map details the height of the globe's forests
Using satellite data, scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map that details the height of the world's forests. Although there are other local- and regional-scale forest canopy maps, the new map is ...
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Tropical Depression 6-E forms from System 96E, struggling in wind shear
Yesterday, System 96E looked good for development and by 5 p.m. EDT that low pressure area had organized more to become Tropical Depression 6-E in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Today, July 15, the GOES-11 satellite ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 15, 2010 |
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Coccolithophore growth and calcification -- a possible role for iron
Lack of sufficient iron may be a significant factor in controlling massive blooms of Emiliania huxleyi, a globally important species of marine algae or phytoplankton, according to research led by researchers at the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 30, 2010 |
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Oceanographers call for more ocean observing in Antarctica
Rutgers' Oscar Schofield and five colleagues from other institutions have published in Science, calling for expanded ocean-observing in the Antarctic, particularly in the Western Antarctic Peninsula, or WAP.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Iridium to launch new telecom satellites
US-based Iridium Communications Wednesday announced plans to launch a new fleet of satellites for global voice and data communications with Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Images from space reveal ground-level flood threat
(PhysOrg.com) -- Satellite imagery captured hundreds of miles from the Earth's surface is being used to analyse the flood risks of some of the world's largest regions, using data that researchers hope could become freely ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Like the writer, Agatha was a brief mystery
Tropical Storm Agatha made landfall this weekend in El Salvador and Guatemala, and crossed into the western Caribbean. Like Agatha Christie, the famous mystery writer, Agatha was somewhat of a forecasting ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 02, 2010 |
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Lasers help researchers predict birds' preferred habitat
Every spring, migratory birds like the Black-throated Blue Warbler journey from tropical Caribbean or South American refuges to North American forests. But which forest patch will they call home this year? ...
Jun 01, 2010 |
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NASA sees strong thunderstorms in potential tropical cyclone near Hong Kong
NASA and other satellite data is helping forecasters get a bead on a tropical low that looks prime for development over the weekend in the Western Pacific Ocean. Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 27, 2010 |
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Engineers Help Power Solar Use by 'Mapping' the Sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- As the use of solar power grows in California it will become more important to know exactly how much radiation and energy are generated in regions throughout the state. That’s the basis behind ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 25, 2010 |
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NASA, Google data show North Korea logging in protected area
Using NASA satellite data and Google Earth, a Purdue University researcher has reported finding evidence that North Korea has been logging in what is designated as a protected United Nations forest preserve.
May 17, 2010 |
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Study gives green light to plants' role in global warming
Plants remain an effective way of tackling global warming despite emitting small amounts of an important greenhouse gas, a study has shown.
Apr 29, 2010 |
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GOES-13 is America's new GOES-EAST satellite
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite known as GOES-13 became the official GOES-EAST satellite on April 14, 2010. GOES-13 was moved from on-orbit storage and into active duty. It is perched ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 17, 2010 |
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